On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:34:39AM +0200, Andreas Krey wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:17:03 +0000, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > Does using create_tempfile there seem like a good path forward to you?
> > Would you be interested in working on it (either writing a patch with
> > such a fix or a test in t/ to make sure it keeps working)?
> 
> I will look into creating a patch (thanks for the pointers),
> but I don't see how to make a testcase for this - pre-filling the
> disk doesn't sound like a good idea. Most people probably won't run in
> this situation, and then won't have tmp_packs with a dozen GBytes each
> lying around.

A patch would be very welcome.  We have this problem not infrequently at
work with development and test VMs, which tend to have a relatively
small amount of disk.

If you decide that you don't want to create a patch, I'll probably pick
it up eventually.
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